Philipp Wolfer
CTO at TEXTKING Deutschland GmbH
Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Area Germany
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Top SchoolPhilipp Wolfer is a seasoned CTO and software engineer with 18 years of experience designing and running web applications, APIs, and server systems from the Frankfurt Rhine-Main area. He leads technical product development and partner integrations at Job Ad Partner while retaining hands-on engineering roles at TEXTKING and previously co-founding the collaboration startup parolu. A pragmatic full-stack developer, he contributes to open-source projects—from UI and internationalization work in popular Linux tools like Tilix and Peek to performance and file-format improvements in Python's Mutagen—demonstrating expertise in i18n, file I/O and cross-platform compatibility. Philipp blends architectural vision with day-to-day coding, is comfortable across SOAP/REST and XML/HTML stacks, and prefers learning through contributing to real projects and collaborating with diverse communities.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at HTWG Hochschule Konstanz – Technik, Wirtschaft und GestaltungBachelor of Arts with Second Class Honours (1st Division) in Business Administration Business Information Systems, Bachelor of Arts with Second Class Honours (1st Division) in Business Administration Business Information Systems at University of Cooperative Education, Ravensburg, Germany
German, English
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Github Skills (43)
vala10
python10
internationalization10
user-interface10
metadata10
ui-design10
graphical-user-interface10
aiff10
uid10
mmap10
localization10
gtk10
front-end-development10
fileio10
file-handling10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
phw/peek
Dec 2015 - Jan 2023
Simple animated GIF screen recorder with an easy to use interface
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:31 releases, 927 commits, 101 PRs in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Philipp primarily contributed to the UI of the Peek application. They refactored the UI code, improved the user experience by implementing features like click-through recording and a size indicator, and added a basic file-saving dialog. They also made code style improvements and ensured that the window size is disabled during recording. Furthermore, the user implemented the functionality to select various output formats.
apngwaylandanimatedscreencastgif
gnunn1/tilix
Jan 2016 - Jan 2023
A tiling terminal emulator for Linux using GTK+ 3
Role in this project:Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:150 commits, 47 PRs, 300 comments in 7 years
Contributions summary:Philipp primarily focused on internationalization (i18n) efforts within the Tilix terminal emulator project. Their commits demonstrate the addition of new strings for translation, the extraction of translatable strings from various project files, and the implementation of features such as the use of context-aware translations. These changes suggest a strong focus on enabling the application to support multiple languages. Furthermore, they updated the build process to automatically merge the translations with existing ones.
emulatorterminal-emulatorsterminal-emulatorlinuxgtk-3
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